Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:13 PM Give benefits equally for gay victims Please compensate the gay domestic partners of 9-11 victims in the same way you?d compensate a grieving spouse. The U.S. Department of Justice?s September 11 compensation fund is compensating illegal aliens, who are breaking our federal laws, but not compensating the domestic partners of gay 9-11 victims. I have just spoken with , who confirmed this fact. DOJ cites as their policy justification that state laws don?t acknowledge domestic partners. In fact, this is homophobic logic. Yes, most states don?t yet legalize the unions of gay partners. That doesn? t change the facts. Americans use the freedom we have in the ?pursuit of happiness? in many ways. Many millions of Americans choose to commit themselves to partners of their same gender. Both and myself have such unions in our families. Even Dick Cheney has such family members. When you love someone, you can feel the love and humanity in their families. You know that their loss upon a death is as deep as anyone?s loss at the death of a spouse. The September 11 fund is supposed to compensate people for their grief, not cause grief. The Department of Justice should stand for justice. Here, the justice should be for those who lost their life partners (in fact, not according to changeable laws). Without compensation for gay domestic partners, the ?Department of Justice? stabs a knife into the already-open emotional wound of their loss. Respectfully submitted, Individual Comment San Francisco, California September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojR000486.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-12